Bazemont

Bazemont is a common French located in the department of the Yvelines (District of Mantes-the-Pretty) and in the area Île-de-France. It is to 18 km in the south-east of Mantes-the-Pretty.

The name “Bazemont” derives from a name of origin Germanic, Boso , and Latin , Mons , the mount.

Geography

The commune of Bazemont extends on the tops from the slope dominating the slope is valley of the Mauldre.
The greatest part of the village is gathered around the church with the locality “the Village”. The commune also comprises hamlets: Malmaison, Kept, the Large Gardens, the Magpie as well as the Hamlet of the Holy-Dove, divided with the commune of Aubergenville, and Beulle, hamlet of which the major part is on the commune of Maule.
On the part is communal territory, an important wooded extent belongs to the Forêt of Alluets.

The village itself is crossed by communal roads. The secondary road D45 passes in the hamlet of Beulle connecting to the Alluets-the-King to Maule. The communes bordering are the Flins-on-Seine in north, Bouafle and Ecquevilly in the North-East, the Alluets-the-King in south-east, Herbeville in the south (on approximately 400 Mr.), Maule in south-west, Aulnay-on-Mauldre in the west and Aubergenville in the North-West.

History

The city owes its name with Latin Mons who means “mount”.

As of the 10th century, monks depending on the priory of Maule clear part of the forest of Alluets and settle with Holy-Dove. The seigniories of Holy-Dove and Bazemont are acquired by Charles of O at the end of the 16th century.

The basement is rich in limestone, in Meulière, clays and marnes. These materials are extracted from the basement until the 19th century. Limestone and the grinding one are used as construction materials, clays are the raw material for the manufacture of bricks and the marnes are extracted to amend the grounds used by agriculture.

The old careers are transformed into mushroom beds at the 19th century. Their galleries run under part of the communal territory.

From 1786 to 1836, Louis Pierre Parat de Chalandray, last lord of the village, then mayor during a few decades, undertakes deep modifications which touch all the monuments (castle and church) and makes build a farm, commun runs in the court of the castle, a feeding trough laundrette and a theater (the Comedy).

After the exploitation of the fruit trees and the market gardening feeding the neighbouring markets, the agricultural activity of Bazemont relates to mainly the cereal culture. Riding schools were in addition created on the commune. Bazemont does not have any trade of proximity, but accommodates a small theater since 1978.

Historic buildings

Saint-Illiers Church: church of the 12th century out of Grinding stone .
Castle: built at the 16th century, of style Rebirth, by the marquis Charles of O and deeply altered during time
Laundrette feeding trough: with the foot of the Comedy with a rectangular basin populated of swans and ducks, dug in 1789.
the farm of Bazemont: joint with the court of the castle, built in 1787.
the Comedy: theater built in 1804.
Town hall: installed in 1893 in a wing of the old castle of the 16th century

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